I've been wanting to paint a cooler ever since I saw people doing it on Pinterest. Usually girls paint them for frats when there's something special to celebrate like mountain weekends and formals. During my spring break I was in a super crafty mood so I decided to paint a cooler for my boyfriend.
The Process: We bought an Igloo cooler from Walmart for around 16 dollars and spray painted it white. Some people on Pinterest spackled their label on the front so they could paint over it but I decided to just spray the whole thing and paint around it. I first started with the top. I took painters tape and made angled stripes. To prevent bleeding through the tape try to be sparse with the paint. I put too much paint and mad the lines look a little blurry. Then I painted the Southern Proper dog with his red bow-tie. I traced the dog on card stock paper and cut it out. I gave it grey shadowing and a bow-tie and added my boyfriend's name first and middle name. I hand painted the rest of the cooler and I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out. The paint I used was acrylic craft paint. When I finished I sprayed it with a clear coat spray paint numerous times and it seems not to scratch but if I did it again I would use something stronger.
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